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SUMMARY:Nancy Youdelman: Dogs Are Forever
DESCRIPTION:The artist continues to add depth to her already significant le
gacy as a pioneering feminist artist through her accessible\, honest explo
ration of the personal objects that interconnect touchstone themes like lo
ve\, mortality and femininity.Some of the work in Youdelman’s latest exh
ibition was inspired by a collection of 300 vintage photos the artist boug
ht on eBay in 2007\, after receiving a Gottlieb Foundation grant. Tuffy is
the [One] I Love–a small dress embedded with multicolored buttons and f
aded images of a girl and her dog—was inspired by some of these photos:
“Taken in the early 1950s\, they are of a young girl\, Sally (written on
the back) and her dog Tuffy. On the back of a photo of her dog\, she wrot
e\, “Tuffy is the I love”\, forgetting to add the word “one”. So
poignant\, this really grabbed me. In my mind’s eye\, I could see dea
rly loved dogs from my own childhood. … Tuffy and Dogs Are Forever give
homage to all my beloved pets.”The artist has long been fascinated by
anonymous subjects whose letters\, pictures and other artifacts inspire he
r art. In describing her fascination with these relics\, Youdelman referen
ces a quote from Diane Arbus on photographs: “They are proof that someth
ing was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is
boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they’ll still be the
re looking at you.”Youdelman is an art lecturer at Fresno State\, where
in 1970 she was one of the 15 founding students in the nation’s first fe
minist art program\, which was led by Judy Chicago and continues to be rec
ognized as a formative moment in American art history. Thereafter\, Youdel
man participated in other leading-edge feminist art collectives such as Wo
manhouse\, Double X and The Woman’s Building\, through which she honed h
er skills in “female technologies” such as sewing\, fashion and perfor
mance.“Throughout (Youdelman’s work)\, the cumulative debris of lived
experience – buttons\, jewelry\, photos\, letters\, dried flowers\, amon
g an assortment of other mementos – reflect the contingencies of recolle
ction and desire\,” Alex Ross of Visual Art Source writes. “Operating
at the intersections between preciousness and potency\, beauty and banalit
y\, individual experience and cultural memory\, Youdelman’s assemblages
assert points at which the weathered and degraded emerge as the foundation
s for a strikingly expressive and continuously singular artistic practice.
”Youdelman studied Theatrical Costume & Make-up\, Art and English Litera
ture at Fresno State before earning a B.F.A. from Cal Arts and an M.F.A. f
rom UCLA. She has taught at colleges throughout California\, has written f
or and edited art magazines and books\, been a mainstay in the Southern Ca
lifornia art scene and even served as artistic consultant for a Rolling St
ones concert. She has been honored with numerous awards\, including grants
from the Pollock-Krasner and Gottlieb Foundations.Eight Modern is open Mo
nday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For further information
and image requests\, contact Lauren Tresp at (505) 995-0231 or info@eightm
odern.net.
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